A pair of grants will facilitate joint studies by area physicians to help advance prenatal scans and improve surgical care. With a $1-million investment, Novant Health physicians based ...

Can the brain recover from addiction? New research shows that mindfulness can restore the addicted brain's ability to savor ...

Chronic pain affects more than 50 million Americans and remains one of the most difficult conditions to treat safely and effectively. While opioids have lo | Drug Discovery And Development ...

An addiction specialist in Virginia regularly overprescribed opioids and hid evidence of his patients’ drug abuse, leading to ...

The rapid growth of lethal synthetic opioids like protonitazene, mostly imported from China, is fueling a deadly epidemic ...

A new experimental painkiller has shown promise in dulling or eliminating pain without the addictive qualities exhibited by ...

As overdose deaths continue and treatment gaps remain, the stakes couldn’t be clearer. Lives are on the line. The governor ...

Nearly a month after the Texas House passed a fentanyl test strip bill, activists stormed Sen. Pete Flores' office to demand Senate action.

At CMS, reports of controlled substance possession reached a 10-year high during the 2022-23 school year, with 717 cases of ...

Illicit opioid use may be higher than previously reported in the United States, according to a study published online.

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers identified a potential way to reduce female post-operative pain by inhibiting pituitary prolactin generated by pre-operative stress.

Oak Park public health staff were among the authors of a report that made a key finding on opioid exposure on West Side ...